Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-11-27

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Gnw 10 ksr1unnH a. IN ennHdnee ma
Rsanhs1 : eEitfesl rfnRs 80 80 erT.sI
tang muEf be dnne % stem ne tide af
wzn1 % &n4z1 1uuas mna Enad ~ Gas
he hfzpnz1 20 q - eaogEret1n ~
h91 th4 stEcnR1st vafca, ard lnxt be
musf maks aueeak. When fhe fnsne
afooo ~ 0u ckaar Be tawarad . far
nboye every ons else shat De affrscsed
iEmedinke axten1sons and whan be BE-
Ean taking there Mzsn't 4 nan n ths
cozEeulian uho did ns9 F1alizs FiEnt
away lha1 aumebody was anEkine. ThaI
judge e110ht The af1eutkan q tle CO..
ssnkl1n 81 TIE A., % 70 .apeak. and he
tnen n1Aoo a iEprnmptu Hpeeeh whi9h
Was So fosaible and elc4neuk an4 TIE
fIde Of eu1hnztnnm feg Hsn1Ei1kB w19
stayed Manufn@ was ahan ahIs 20 DE-
BuE1s work, and tha result Is vel
kz8un, mere e1psnially nov 10 the
Mugwumps. Jndge JoneE = sns Of the
nen uhom ths psssidant remembered
PROMPTLY.
A Taeama lawyer vhiIs tss1ifyine 10
TIE distEiot eouEs yesterday IS 20 the
Feputatloa of ons q The parties 70 ne
csse beiBg heArd said:
HHs always kssps his v1z1n
Wnat DO you mean By thatf" IN
quiEed ne et1ozaey.
@WslI, Be always eomes 10 ne for a.
vice. sad every time he does % be says
hs win not Be abls 70 pay me anything,
and - always kegs bis VOID
The witness was exsused.
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Oagtain MaIRram Polite, Of NE ship
spartan, who hna sailed into tie 8Oand
probably - ofte1 ns any man Who nov
PAGES the quarter dock, and who can
tell stories about what be saw In Seattle
twenty-five years age, stood locking a.
he Colmau bleak, On Saturday, ard
When friend joined hfn, aaid:
That bleak carries ne b9ak twenty
Eve years. ] was loading vessel with
I1mber e. tbs old fesisF MIL 81 tie
time ! nov hare IL mind, when Mr..
XeglsF offered 10 sell me the lot this
block nov skandson for $50. thouRht
the pEioe VS. TOO high and told him 30.
! am wiling 10 admit that ! made q
uistake. IL ] had Invested $50 IN that
property ] miRht nov be riding about
IN my carriage dkc the rest Of the old
timers Who had sssss 10 know 3 Rood
thing when they saw u.
.sNeaEly every political division IN this
country has q nick-uams, except WASH
inRt0D TeEFitory,n said q gentleman
yesterday to another. This ought 70
Be attended te. before gome one fastens
eommnn-plaee familiar name 10 Il.
Some Of lhe familiar names given the
States are either poetic OF eomplimen-
taFy. They do nos convey any eueRes-
ton Of real OF imaginary relation Of the
state % the other states, nor DO they
bear any historical si0nlneance. But
some Of the familiar names are good
ones; for exnmpIe, New York 10 the
aEmpirsp state, and Pennsylvania the
stkeyBtcne1 atase."
"What are We going 10 do about its'
Inquired an unimpFagsible friend.
"WhY, I'm going 70 give this terri
tory q name worthy It's present great
- and one Suggestive Of the relations
Il viii bsar In she future 10 the great
family Of Uncle Sam"
"What ~ tbs nameFs
Il baptixs Il The New Dominion.' I"
Then they cslebEated the occasion
agreeable 10 cherished traditions.
ss
do you ses those soAntIing stretched
between the forks Of th0ss trees across
the atseetf said an old timer yesterday
81 the entrance 70 the Occidental hotel,
pointing across James street. The
question vas addressed TO Q new conner.
sXes, DO, and canst sc anything
very extraordinary about them"
"Wels, Il you had seen them In the
afternoon Of January Il, 1854, you would
have seen hanging 70 them thfee men
With ropes around their necks. without
shEoads or caps. and with their boots
on. It vas on the only occasion when
Seattle citizens gese MP and put IN
efeotual cheek 20 crime. There vas
nothing haBty IN the var tbs people
weuf shout e. The men had 9 fair
trial, only the trial was net condueted
/ By the legal ofaeerB. II you bad sen
the door Of the present county Jail
before Il uas repaired, Q fsW days aR0,
yuu could have eeen the axe MARKS made
By the men Who pretty nearly ent their
way into the fail after one Of the men
Who vas afkeEward strung up to thoas
ecanflina. When the sheriff saw the
men we're dessRmined be gave them TIE
keys, after they had promised 10 give
the man they were after Q fair trial.
That vas q remarkable day"
&c
sWhen Senator Sherman and The late
Senator Logan were hers Ia September,
1855 said another gentleman, sthe
seantIinR we're pointed out 10 Mr. SheK-
man e be stood 81 one Of tbs paFioE
windows ln tbs Occidental hotel. After
be had heard The tragic story connected
with them, he said:
a'Gentismen,I would scvise you 10 re-
move these scantlinR. Wipe cot eVuEy-
thing thai viii recall that tragedy. Let
the Law be supreme always. and justice
win Get her dues.
sThoss soantIing would have been re-
moved long ago bad not triflinR acai-
dent inlerfexed. said another old
tinaR who had joined the party.
rJadRe Greene. than chief justice Of the
tezzikoxy, was going By there ons DAY
Of hts term Of 0faee, when be stopped
and asked some one fos ladder With
which 20 remove them. The ladders
~4OtAA8 1A&G8 - AEAAAsA1 49, ~ AG4MNH-
81 was postponed and afterwards for
gotten. while the judge vas trying 20
have them removed, friend suggested
that possibly the people weuid nos IikA
20 have them taken down.
81 do net think there b any ona Ia
Seattle Who eould more appFopEiatsly
remOxe these scantlinR than myaslf,'
snid the dirnieed Judge.
The Judge referred 10 the ef0xfs be
had made % pssyent TIE hanging Of TIE
men. BE vas ehief justice and did all
be could 20 ave The men. going % far
as 10 praeticaliy cat che a The ropes.
He vAs hurried very perempkorily away
from the saann. No enc has DISTURBED
them stnce.p
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Mr.. A. A. Denny has Just eomplstsd
wrifinR an sccounf Of hts expexience "a
6eallle and ca Puget Sound. Probably
No other man now living ID mere oaps-
be Of writing a. inseEssting an6 con
plsts Q histnEy e. Mr.. Dsnny. Not uuly
has he ben idsnfinsd dirsstly or indf-
Fsetly with nearly everything which con.
tEib1tsd 30 the prosperity q seattle, bat
he pcsseases literary stSainmenls 81 8
high order. Ihe aeosunt, besides baina